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National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Volume 42
An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery Technical Bulletin is an annual record of the research carried out...
David Hammons
Day's End
An in-depth look at a public art project by David Hammons with an overview of the enigmatic artist’s career Published to commemorate David Hammons’s (b. 1943) public art project Day’s End, this book documents...
Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han
The two volumes of James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han, first published in 1829–32, remain to this day the first port of call for anyone interested in the history and culture of Rajasthan and the early colonial...
Jane Austen's Wardrobe
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe brings together for the first time all the surviving dress and jewellery objects of Jane Austen (1775–1817), and imaginatively explores the missing pieces. Alongside the real garments and accessories,...
Belfast
The Story of a City and its People
A lively and comprehensive history of Belfast—covering the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and...
Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815
Explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism Spanning the designed landscapes of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688, the...
Burning the Big House
The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the...
Critical Revolutionaries
Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at...
Unmaking the East India Company
British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858
Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state’s nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This...
Ellsworth Kelly
Portrait Drawings
An eye-opening presentation of largely unknown figurative drawings by a renowned pioneer of abstraction Featuring one hundred figurative works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), this volume shows a new side of...